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    <p>I have a program which uses Allegro 5.0.5. It is a basic shooting game that I made while following tutorials to learn how to use the library. I installed Allegro 5 in Dev C++ with a dev pack, and when I create a new project I select Allegro 5 application which automatically adds the following to the linker:</p> <ul> <li>-lallegro-5.0.5-monolith-mt </li> <li>-lshlwapi </li> </ul> <p>The program compiles and runs fine from within Dev C++ but when I try and run the executable outside of the IDE, I get an error:</p> <blockquote> <p>The program can't start because allegro-5.05-monolith-mt.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.</p> </blockquote> <p>Now my first thought was oh I need to include that dll file in the same folder as the executable, however I cannot find this file on my computer for the life of me. But it must be there if Dev C++ is using it. </p> <p>I tried downloading the whole Allegro 5 folder to see if the file was in there but it was not.</p> <p>After reading up on it I tried manually including other entries in the linker section which were allegedly needed to make a static version of the exe. However that did not work.</p> <p>I also read that if you have a monolith version that it can compile as a static library if you have <code>#define ALLEGRO_STATICLINK</code> before any allegro include statements. That compiled as well but still did not fix the problem.</p> <p>No one else seems to have this same issue so if anyone could help out it would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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    1. COIt _is_ in the Allegro 5 folder—probably in the bin subdirectory.
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    2. CO@Sky I am an idiot, I found it right in the Dev C++ bin folder, not the Allegro 5 folder I downloaded. Thank you, including that worked like a charm
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